DAN StUARt once told us, t remember tely o tion at Somerset occasionally ed a party of ladies across t in of t neood t y years or more -- s gilt-globe-topt front facing t emporium of our artists grand Annual Exposure. e sometimes h Daniel.
A tempered of Editors. Perry, of t, one eitier. S. was frank, plain, and Englislemen.
It is sooto contemplate to trace t little bubblings of a mighty river;
ito approache rocks,
reams reno song.
Fired or ramblings after t Nilus, Cs al) sallying fort rise of sun, not very aking, to trace t tonian stream ! -- to its scaturient source, as ary quest -- for it ial to ty, of a Discovery, t no eye of scection. By flos, and verdant lanes, skirting rained us on in many a baffling turn; endless seemed; or as if ters ant to of tivity revealed; till spent, and nig of te dotenit accomplis, t t Brucian enterprise too arduous for our young shoulders.
Not more refreso ty curiosity of traveller is tracing of some migers up to tlet, t is to a pleased and candid reader to go back to t calloure; from t o trod on.
In tial retainer to its establis, kept an auto furnisum of ty paragrap pretty oo -- uarts settled remuneration in t of t, above all, dress, furniserial. to exceed seven lines. Ser t be, but t .
A fas ture, er to S.s Paper, establisation in t line. e ;capital ; O ts ic differences! from trite and obvious floo tume of t ting upon quot;many ers.quot; teral topic of ancles. an occasion to a truly ce er, like ourself, of touc nice brink, and yet never tumbling over it, of a seemingly ever approximating somet;not quite proper;quot; er, balancing bet decorums and tes, ion is destruction; and darkness, or ; a ain delicacy; Autolycus-like in till putting off ant auditory ;; But, above all, t conceit arrided us most at t time, and still tickles our midriff to remember, of Astraea -- ultima Coelestum terras reliquit -- o tockings still -- t MODEStY tAKING ALS, BLUS tO tRACt OF tEP. t be called t; and eemed tolerable ing in those days.
But transient mode eness, and left us scarce a leg to stand upon. Ot none, met, so pregnant, so invitatory of ss, and more t to sively for a fortnig toutest digestion. But to o furnis not for a fortnig for a long trained to do, tle ion. quot;Man goeto il t; -- from a reasonable . Noion took us up from eigill five every day in ty; and as our evening t time Of life, o do follo time ory of jokes -- our supplementary liveli supplied us in every beyond mere bread and cly t part of tly denominated No Mans time; t is, no time in o be up, and ao speak more plainly, it is t time, of an ion, in for .
O da mucer in to rise, above four o-beds icipated times in ing cup at midnige times, and to us -- constellated under Aquarius, t ery sign, and ter-sponges, nor aken our degrees at Mount Ague -- s, jolly companions, to o get up, as ailed of ing, a of refresance -- to be necessitated to rouse ourselves at testable rap of an old ic, ake a diabolical pleasure in t it ;time to rise;quot; and o amputate, and string t our co be a terror to all suc-breakers in future -- quot;Facilquot; and s, as Virgil sings, ;descendingquot; of t, balmy t sinking of t to get up, as o say,
-- revocare gradus, Superasque evadere ad auras --
and to get up moreover to make jokes ;labour,quot; t;;
No Egyptian taskmaster ever devised a slavery like to t, our slavery. No fractious operants ever turned out for yranny, ing Sundays too), ter of course, and claim no Sabbatical exemptions. But to our to tain must come to Ma --
Reader, try it for once, only for one s th.
It every a fasockings came up; but mostly, instead of it, some rugged, untractable subject; some topic impossible to be contorted into ture, upon illation. ted tale of brick-making before you, ra emple -- must be fed; it expected its daily rations; and Daniel, and ourselves, to do us justice, did t ing him.
liness for t, and oil of ;easy ing,quot; Bob Allen, our quondam scapping icable brains in a like service for t;Oracle.quot; Not t Robert troubled . If ly air about t . last, t a matter of intelligence, and t no very important one, seldom palmed upon ; for example sake -- quot; alking yesterday morning casually o Deputy o add, t ty appeared to enjoy a good state of remember ever to ter.quot; tleman, so surprisingly met upon Sno or gesture, ant butt for mirto t t . e met A. in ly after traordinary rencounter, ears of satisfaction in ticipated effects of its announcement next day in t quite compre of it lay at time; nor easy to be detected, aged by type and letter-press. ter any t morning tly after dispensed e in point. tion, it must be oy; and timent, or moral, of y, and good neig some judged altogeto anso t promise of traced our friends pen after;true Briton,quot; t;Star,quot; t;traveller,quot; -- from all ; Noto detect failed, or topics ran loantly appeared t is not generally kno t t arms of Lombardy. t money-brokers in Europe.quot; Bob o set t on tant point of blazonry, the whole College of heralds.
tment of a regular o be a part of tors find t te, and top up t custom of quot;ty paragrap; first in t;orld.quot; Boaden to discover in traces of t vivacity and fancy t of t century. Even t er -- t quot;Astraean allusion quot; -- pedantic, and out of date, in these days.
From t (for once) by cy in transferred, mortifying exco te Rackstro-street a transition -- from a ment, from rose-ands, to an office -- no office, but a den rat just redeemed from tion of dead monsters of -- from tre of loyalty and faso a focus of vulgarity and sedition! , inadequate from its square contents to t of tor, and oget one time, sat in torial functions (t;Bigodquot; of Elia) ted John Fenwick.
F., a guinea in , and not many in ts of command, ick doubtless) torsorss and titles (suc ood in t s commencement, and could no more tely determine upon pulling do in t instance, and making botunes by uated Democrat go about borro tamp Office, o publications of t side in politics. An outcast from politer bread, tacalents to tunes of our friend. Our occupation noo e treason.
Recollections of feelings -- boyiss kindled by tion, endency at time to Republican doctrines assisted us in assuming a style of ing, in no very under-tone to t earnest fanaticism of F. Our cue o insinuate, rations. Blocks, axes, eribunals, ly -- t ttorney General to detect times, indeed, ion under Stuart. But ers it is ever cerleman at treasury, o be marked at t office, s being submitted at least to ttention of t Sir J---s M----ing for India to reap ts of acy, as F. pronounced it, (it is icularising), o offend ted to be called, Citizen Stan one of t patron t uck by us; and breaking up our establis, left us to t someifying, neglect of t time, or a little earlier, t Dan. Stuart made t curious confession to us, t ;never deliberately o an Exion at Somerset ;